Jackpot! - Movie Reviews (2024)

“Jackpot!” sadly fails, because it never transcends or subverts Hollywood’s conventional approach to difficult subjects.

Full Review | Oct 28, 2024

Feig's primary influences seem to be "Idiocracy," "The Purge," and Looney Tunes--and he is undoubtedly correct in assuming that this unholy mix will hit some people’s sweet spot.

Full Review | Sep 27, 2024

Chaos run amok.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 26, 2024

Sometimes it can be really funny, but I kept being pulled back thinking "None of this makes sense!"

Full Review | Sep 16, 2024

There is a commitment to the bit that admirably works at times because of its relentlessness and the work from Awkwafina and Cena, but there are also plenty of unanswered questions in what also feels like a reworked dark sci-fi screenplay.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2024

A kind of crazy comedic cross between The Running Man and The Purge, Paul Feig’s latest action-comedy also feels like a modern-day riposte to the “enhanced calm” dystopian future promised by 1993’s Demolition Man.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2024

Noisy, raucous, undisciplined, Jackpot! is really a self-indulgent mess...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2024

The way the characters’ periodic moments of attempted emotional resonance stop the action dead made a lot more sense once I found out that screenwriter Rob Yescombe has spent most of his career writing video games.

Full Review | Aug 28, 2024

Paul Feig is rather good at this kind of thing, bringing scrappy, uproarious energy to a nonstop series of high-octane set-pieces while keeping likeable characters at the centre.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 27, 2024

If you don't mind sitting through nearly two hours of mind-numbing violence for the occasional laugh, come on in.

Full Review | Aug 27, 2024

It’s just a flaccid hundred minutes drag through nonsense and emptiness.

Full Review | Aug 25, 2024

...an oddball, almost nonsensical premise that’s employed as a springboard for a predominantly tiresome and tedious actioner...

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 24, 2024

Save for a few enjoyable moments from Cena and Liu, it’s best not to invest any time into Jackpot!

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Aug 24, 2024

There’s nothing in this film that punches any ticket – not even a scratcher – and everybody loses.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 23, 2024

An action-comedy that lacks intoxicating fight scenes and genuine punchlines, this feature is less than the sum of its parts even as it turns Los Angeles’ make-or-break culture into a dystopian murder game.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2024

I found myself laughing out loud throughout the film. John Cena and Awkwafina make a good team. Hilarious.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2024

Things become less amusing the longer it goes on.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Aug 22, 2024

I thought it might be fun hate-watch viewing. The reality is, though, it’s a film so boring and stilted, I couldn’t even be entertained by what makes it so painstakingly bad.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2024

Another familiar dystopia wrings laughs thanks to a stellar cast.

Full Review | Aug 22, 2024

The leads are a likeable odd couple, however disposable their chaotic romp.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2024